Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-12
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1e, 1887
who Gored Our OK?

SOlD6 lew NCChp ufO 'OPoAeS
here of well concerted but most das-
tardly attempt to injure Southern
California by the prediction that the
'sboom" was on the point of collapse.
The attempt was made by means Of
articles which appeared in the first
insta nee in the columns of the New
York Herald, and which We're spread
broa dcast over the country by one OF
the news associations which furnish
the press with current events. Incl
dentalE these articles were intended
to direct attention to colony scheme
whose lands lie in Baja California, as
we call the peninsula under Mexican
rule, and lying south Of this State.
There seems to be every reason in the
world for the conclusion SO generally
held heneabqpts, that this scheme is
one d The worst wildcat affairs
coming to Hight in many long day.
In this connection it will be recalled,
it also transpired that there was at the
head of this matter, nefarious both in
its attitude towards this section, and
in ITS attempt to lead ignorant people
into about the worst fools paradise, "
in the way of colonizing known to
modern times, newspaper man OF
national reputation, and who was in
terested in the colony described above
Well, these are the main outlines Of
an attempt which fell still-born from
the brain of the great protector
As the thing failed utterly in its de.
sign, and leaves us as prosperous as
we could desire, our purpose is not tc
com bat the statements made in
those screeds and widely dis
seminated by some news agency,
either besotted in ignorance, OF
rotten with unscrupulous dishonesty
1t may not be known to the general
reader of newspapers, as it is by those
engaged in literary work on the press
that there are two associations which
profess to furnish news to papers from
outside the places where any given
paper r Mmaay be published. One Of these
is kno wn as the Associated Press. .
This organization has an agent in
every town in the United States, as
well as agents in every large city in
the world. No event of importance
can transpire in any quarter of the
globe, but it is at once sent flashing
along the wires controlled by this
assoc iation to every newspaper which
takes its dispatches in the Ameri
can Union. And nearly all the
press of the country takes these
di spatches. 1t is service admirably
org anized in all respects. Its energy
reaches everywhere, its action is
prompt as the lightning, like the eyes
of Argus, its prescience is little short
of omniscience, and its well defined
policy is formulated according to an
experience growing out of the many
years the association dates back
through. The world knows no such
agency for gathering and again dissem-
mating news as this same Associated
Press, and no similar organization
could possibly be founded which would
ut all vie with this one. This is the
Association whose splendid, unap-
proachable service appears in the COL
umns Of the HERALD every morning
in the year.
Now, to return to the defamatory
articles published go widely, and with
the aforethought malice of purpose to
kill off South California, and all our
marvellous industries, and beggar all
the thousands of people whose all is
invested in this phenomenal section.
The charge was openly made, and
with much emphasis, and persistency
of reiteration that it was this very
Associated Press which had beer
used in this infamous attempt to ruiz
prosperous people. The charge was
made by the half dozen papers--al
new fledged bantlings in the journal
istic world-published in this State
which do not take Associated Pres
dispatches. The reason they do moi
take them is that they cannot ge
them. They are controlled by othel
papers in the same cities, which have
purchased exclusive rights for thii
valuable service. That there
was word of truth ir
the charge we knew was
absurd. The HERALD gets the
dispatches Of the associated press, and
we knew no such matter ever reached
our desks. But we perferred to bide
our time, and laugh best" by
q sslaughing last" Yesterday morning
1heze appeared in this journal dis
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